The special formats used today are: Braille Talking book Large pring E-text: (e-text is not really one format. Such as pdf, htm, word or the DAISY or the plain text, Soft Braille is another type of e-text format.
How ever, it is to be made sure that formats are not hard-coded in the law. We cannot define formats since definitions change every day. If I cannot read normal print then I should have right to convert it into any accessible format. It cannot always be a special format. Important is that it has to be accessible. The restriction only has to be that it is used only by print disabled person. Thus it is only the person or the user where the restriction is to be put and not in the format. In any case special formats can never be able to prevent pyracy by itself. For that matter, even normal print doesn't have that capability. Thanks Dipendra -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pamnani Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] Copyright and special formats In every law on copyright there is a mention of "special formats". What is considered as special format? Is DAISY the only special format being used today? Comments and views are required urgently. Kanchan Pamnani Advocate & Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
